Xiaowu ten years

Alisa 2022-04-21 09:03:21

When I saw the text on "Watching the Movie", I suddenly remembered that "Xiao Wu" has been around for almost 10 years.

If it weren't for "The Good Man in Three Gorges", Jia Zhangke's name would have faded in my heart.

In "The Hill Going Home", I experienced another image for the first time. At that time, I didn't understand the film, but because I was curious.
At that time, Jia Zhangke was still a child of a poor family, and he and a few good friends saved money to make this short film, followed other people's buttocks to eat big households, and lived through life, just for the pursuit of art. Later, "Xiao Wu" made him.

I don't even remember what "Xiao Wu" looked like, but I remember a bunch of popular songs and a naked Wang Hongwei in the bathroom.
But remember, he was sincere then.
Of course, it is also said from time to time that he is insincere now. Rather, he treats the movie as a movie too much.
Moreover, classmate Wang Hongwei has also gained weight, and his appearance in "Three Gorges Good Man" has completely become the appearance of a township entrepreneur.

To make an independent film requires 100% sincerity. That's the path you choose, and you have to go purely.

"Three Gorges Good Man", I didn't pay attention to it when it was being produced, until I got the Golden Lion Award, I didn't have much feeling.
I got the idea to watch this film because I ordered something on Joyo.com and added an extra dollar to get this DVD.

Do not look white do not look.

I agree with what the two of them said:
First, Su Qiqi: The biggest reality in our time is surreal.
One is Wang Mumu: "The Three Gorges" has created some new film language.

First of all, the music you put in doesn't melt into it. I listened, and I couldn't help feeling sad.

Secondly, it is the Three Gorges, not a good person. The Three Gorges is the biggest protagonist, and it has become a symbol with a strong sense of form.
The symbol is used metaphorically, so it bluntly rapes the good guy in the movie.
Long shots, human silence, and non-performing performances have all been reduced to a simple continuation of Jia Zhangke.
All images are only for the surreal service in reality,
"The Good Man in Three Gorges" just uses surreal film language to cover up his barren appearance.
Of course, I still want to say, this is a good movie.

If there is no "Xiao Wu", he is still a good film.
After "Xiao Wu", he became a standard filmmaker, so he became conscious and thought about how to make himself a breakthrough.

He did break through. When I saw something like a rocket flying silently into the air,
the shock in my heart was far greater than when I saw the good people in the Three Gorges walking and searching.
Those things that were most important to Jia Zhangke have been forgotten and numb, and the only thing
left is to know that they are disappointed. Hope, knowingly, is the joy of self-comfort.

Director, is it a sad profession?

Some things are beyond your control.

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